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Old 15-April-2008, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by stargazer_7000 View Post
hi folks,

this is a first light image taken last night with my new planetary equipment:
DMK 21AF04 and Atif filterwheel with Astronomik filters.

seeing was not exactly at its best but it was fun to image solar sytem objects after all.

please find the images here:

http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/Saturn-LRGB.html

and moon:
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/VA.html

thanks for looking,

Dietmar
The Saturn photo looks like one of those "ooh, ooh, agh agh" comments uttered by Tim the Tooltime Toolman.

I was in 7th grade, during an amateur astronomy meeting, with a homebuilt telescope, that I saw a similar image, although in nowhere near this detail.

Still, I saw the rings and Saturn's bands.

Awesome!
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